american defenses were low and rapid demobilization after world war ii. so, it really took the korean war to create all the policy that we now see, we now associate with the cold war, the standing army, huge defense budgets, the perception of the cyno soviet bloc, and is a threat to american national security and all of that came about because of the korean war and because of the coreon war there was collusion between the government and the defense industry. so the birth of the military industrial complex that eisenhower later warned the nation against. be ware of the military industrial complex, in 1961. i think for china, the effect of the korean war was also extremely profound because it was during the korean war -- must remember that, first, china thought the world's greatest superpower could stan still. that created huge prestige for mao. the century of humiliation and also during the korean war you see the mass mobilization campaigns that become familiar later on, the cultural revolution, and the reform campaign, and these campaigns were aimed to pu